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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Drop unused return value of kvm_mmu_remove_some_alloc_mmu_pages
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:41:19 +0200
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On 12/06/2011 12:40 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >
> > Is there any need for mmu_shrink()?
>
> Without it a user can easily pin large amounts of kernel memory by
> filling guest memory with page tables and shadowing them all.

It would make an interesting test case, btw, to try to crash the kernel
this way, and exercise the shrinker.

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